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Eggs and cheese for breakfast takes craving of food rest of the day.

It is been around a month when diagnosed with T2 diabetes. 43 years .I remember how awful it felt in the beginning hard to describe and really don’t like to talk to friends or people I know about it. Found this forum on google am glad I did, the wealth of useful info and to see others with...

After almost a month of stopping eating high carbs foods including all junk snacks, bread rice pasta all flour based products and daily walk 5 days a week notice the fasting sugar dropping from 12.2 when first diagnosed with type 2 to 5.6 and during the day and after meal hasn’t spiked beyond...

15 days of keto diet and 30 to 40 minutes walk 5 days a week. I can tell the difference with the weight from 92kg to 89.50 and sugar level the fasting 5.5 , it was 12.8 when first diagnosed last month and random during day doesn’t go above 7. Still only taking 1 metformin a day with breakfast...

I don’t know, guess am just confused and new to diabetes and try to avoid medication where I can

I was thinking the same that my guess is she will say to have one in the morning and one at night like you said. Twice 2 tablets with keto diet might be too much will have to wait till 11th December to find out for sure am newly diagnosed no doubt they will be alteration to the medicine

Hello again The keto diet in my opinion is the way forward on day 8 of the keto diet, noticed the fasting blood sugar level dropped from 12.8 to 6.7 today. Also during the day even after meal times it has been around 8. The doctor prescribed me a metformin one tablet a day after breakfast for 7...

Thank you. I did keto diet few years ago to lose weight it worked but unfortunately I slipped back to the old habits and because there was no diabetic symptoms at all. I thought I got away with it not till routine blood check came back with the result I was dreading. I started the keto diet...

Totally agree but I need to get those sugar levels down to a normal range and a long term lifestyle to what to eat is needed eventually, like stopping junk snacks and fizzy pop and the white carbs!

After been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last week . And after recovering from the shock I decided to start a keto diet which I did few years ago to lose weight. It did work back than and lost around 20kg. But failed to maintain the weight and came back to the old habits and eventually put...

I think what did me is the excessive drinking of sugar free pops thinking they don’t contain sugar which might be true but what they put in them does make the sugar level spike for 4 days I been drinking black coffee or tea as alternative to stop the craving for the energy drink fix !

This is why I joined the forum to get ideas from people who can relate to their experience thank you for the helpful insight although my 15 years old son has type 1 diabetes which was terrible experience he had when he was four am sure people who were first diagnosed with type 2 felt over...

Sorry but how is that possible..

Thank you Totally agree carbs are addictive and are enemy number one.

Saturday 21/11/2020 Hi this my first post in this forum I have decided to go on a ketone diet starting Monday 23/11/22 because the doctors said I have type 2 diabetes the sugar level came 101 and normal is 50! Which came as a shock to me as I am in good health and have no known diabetes...